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Ezra Koenig Quotes

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

Ezra Koenig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 8, 1984

Topics

Education College Go Scholarship Up

All my books deal with the effect of intent upon action, how our understanding of good and evil depends heavily on context.

Jesse Kellerman

Good Good And Evil Evil Action Deal

My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry's summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house.

Jeffrey Wright

Job Swimming Deep House Pool Inside

When you're on set with Ed Asner or Melissa Peterman, you start to sort of exist in a different realm sometimes. You try not to let that get in your head, and you try not to let that overtake you.

Steve Kazee

Start You Sometimes Try Head Get

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.

Sissy Spacek

Character Time You Kind Beyond Out

One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a Sicily that was already lost by the time Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was writing.

Ruth Ware

Life Time Writing Desert Lost Way

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

Mohit Chauhan

Day Process Election Vote Way Sure

I am so not technically proficient at all.

Monica Potter

I Am Proficient Technically Am

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Ludwig van Beethoven

Opportunity Death Happy Suffering Me

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

Jon Lovitz

Money Comedy First Over Anything

A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.

Denis Villeneuve

Succeed Think Process Long Dream

Nobody really turns out too happy in any of my stuff. It's really strange, because I'm actually a pretty happy person. I'm not walking around giggling or anything like that, but I've got this feeling that everything is okay with my life.

Donald Ray Pollock

Life Happy Walking My Life Person

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.

Colleen Hanabusa

Health Waiting Legal Mental Health